Framing processes and communication strategies of the Student Movement Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil in the 2011 protests in Colombia

Authors

  • Edwin Cruz Rodríguez Universidad Nacional de Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i128.2283

Keywords:

social movement, students, educational reform, Colombia, Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil, colective action frameworks

Abstract

This article analyzes the framing processes and the communication strategies of the student movement called Mesa Amplia Nacional Estudiantil during the 2011 protests against the higher education reform in Colombia. For this student movement, the main antagonist is the Government and it claims that education is a right and not a commodity; and a battle that goes beyond the university community and the student body is proposed in order to carry out several social and popular acts. The participants in this movement took into account the need to compete for the attention of the mass media, so they made it functional to their cause. They also felt the need to implement alternative forms of communication through virtual media and the need to create visible events that would become news and would help them to transmit their message.

Author Biography

  • Edwin Cruz Rodríguez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Politólogo. Especialista en análisis de políticas públicas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Magíster en Análisis de problemas políticos, económicos e internacionales contemporáneos de la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Candidato a Doctor en Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales e integrante del Grupo de Investigación en Teoría Política Contemporánea de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

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Published

15-11-2015

Issue

No. 128 (2015): Movimientos sociales y propagación de ideas políticas en la sociedad en red

Section

Monográfico

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